#Peter Cellier

[mariocki]

Shadows of Fear: Repent at Leisure (1.5, Thames, 1971)

"Poor Robert. Do you remember what the doctor said? He'd never seen such an advanced cirrhosis in someone so young. He had a liver like a Strasbourg goose."

"Occupational hazard."

"How'd you think that made me feel? It isn't very flattering for a wife to play second fiddle to a wine list."

"I'm sure it was no reflection on you."

"All the same. I hardly changed the pattern of his life, did I?"

"No... but you're asking Harry to make fantastic adjustments. From galley to, uh, captain's table."

"You're a terrible snob, Peter."

"Oh, I am. So are you, my pet. That's what frightens me."

[dannyreviews]

Veteran British born/based film/TV actors born before and including 1936 still alive:

With the recent death of Dame Maggie Smith, I thought I'd detail the legendary actors of UK cinema and television that are still living as of the date of this post:

Eileen Bennett (b. 1919)

Arnold Yarrow (b. 1920)

Beulah Garrick (b. 1921)

Elizabeth Kelly (b. 1921)

Elisabeth Kirkby (b. 1921)

Sara Luzita (b. 1922)

Annabel Maule (b. 1922)

Paul Harding (b. 1923)

Vincent Ball (b. 1923)

David Lawton (b. 1923)

Anne Vernon (b. 1924)

Donald Pelmear (b. 1924)

Thelma Ruby (b. 1925)

Pete Murray (b. 1925)

Michael Beint (b. 1925)

Shelia Mitchell (b. 1925)

Kerima (b. 1925)

David Attenborough (b. 1926)

Elizabeth Benson (b. 1926)

Margaret Barton (b. 1926)

Terry Kilburn (b. 1926)

Stanley Baxter (b. 1926)

David Frankham (b. 1926)

William Glover (b. 1926)

Josephine Stuart (b. 1926)

Patricia Davidson (b. 1926)

Barbara Clegg (b. 1926)

Glen Michael (b. 1926)

Araby Lockhart (b. 1926)

Eileen Page (b. 1926)

Rosemary Harris (b. 1927)

Cleo Laine (b. 1927)

Lee Montague (b. 1927)

Genevieve Page (b. 1927)

Neville Phillips (b. 1927)

Jean Lodge (b. 1927)

Barbara Ashcroft (b. 1927)

Jill Freud (b. 1927)

Jean Southern (b. 1927)

Antonia Pemberton (b. 1927)

Peter Cellier (b. 1928)

Jeanette Landis (b. 1928)

Sheila Ballantine (b. 1928)

Dorothea Phillips (b. 1928)

Jeannie Carson (b. 1928)

Hazel Ascot (b. 1928)

Brenda Hogan (b. 1928)

Philip Guard (b. 1928)

Raymond Llewelyn (b. 1928)

Pauline Brailsford (b. 1928)

Leonard Weir (b. 1928)

Kevin Scott (b. 1928)

Tony Hughes (b. 1928)

Joan Plowright (b. 1929)

Patricia Routledge (b. 1929)

Colin Jeavons (b. 1929)

Michael Craig (b. 1929)

Thelma Barlow (b. 1929)

Peter Myers (b. 1929)

Paul Williamson (b. 1929)

Kevin Miles (b. 1929)

John Gale (b. 1929)

Phillip Ross (b. 1929)

Jimmy Fagg (b. 1929)

Hazel Phillips (b. 1929)

Mignon Elkins (b. 1929)

Margaret Stallard (b. 1929)

Maya Koumani (b. 1929)

Clive Revill (b. 1930)

Charles Kay (b. 1930)

Roy Evans (b. 1930)

Una McLean (b. 1930)

Roddy Maude-Roxby (b. 1930)

Ruth Trouncer (b. 1930)

Cyril Appleton (b. 1930)

Vera Frances (b. 1930)

Gary Watson (b. 1930)

Keith Alexander (b. 1930)

Libby Morris (b. 1930)

Pauline Jefferson (b. 1930)

Claire Bloom (b. 1931)

Leslie Caron (b. 1931)

Carroll Baker (b. 1931)

Virginia McKenna (b. 1931)

Vivian Pickles (b. 1931)

Stanley Meadows (b. 1931)

Gerald Harper (b. 1931)

Patricia Greene (b. 1931)

Ellen McIntosh (b. 1931)

Elvi Hale (b. 1931)

Maureen Connell (b. 1931)

June Laverick (b. 1931)

James Martin (b. 1931)

Denyse Alexander (b. 1931)

Arthur Nightingale (b. 1931)

Eileen Derbyshire (b. 1931)

Carl Held (b. 1931)

Shelia Bernette (b. 1931)

George Eugeniou (b. 1931)

Corinne Skinner-Carter (b. 1931)

Tusse Silberg (b. 1931)

Petula Clark (b. 1932)

Prunella Scales (b. 1932)

Phyllida Law (b. 1932)

Ray Cooney (b. 1932)

Brian Murphy (b. 1932)

Edward De Souza (b. 1932)

Alan Dobie (b. 1932)

John Turner (b. 1932)

Roland Curram (b. 1932)

Gabriel Woolf (b. 1932)

Johnnie Wade (b. 1932)

Eileen Moore (b. 1932)

Laurie Leigh (b. 1932)

William Roache (b. 1932)

Athol Fugard (b. 1932)

Carmen Munroe (b. 1932)

Norman Bowler (b. 1932)

Marcia Ashton (b. 1932)

Thelma Holt (b. 1932)

Antony Carrick (b. 1932)

Sally Bazely (b. 1932)

Michael Caine (b. 1933)

Joan Collins (b. 1933)

Sian Phillips (b. 1933)

Sheila Hancock (b. 1933)

Elizabeth Seal (b. 1933)

Shani Willis (b. 1933)

Patrick Godfrey (b. 1933)

Caroline Blakiston (b. 1933)

Donald Douglas (b. 1933)

Ann Firbank (b. 1933)

Vera Day (b. 1933)

Tsai Chin (b. 1933)

Geoffrey Frederick (b. 1933)

Marla Landi (b. 1933)

Monte Landis (b. 1933)

Mary Germaine (b. 1933)

Ruth Posner (b. 1933)

Barbara Archer (b. 1933)

W.B. Brydon (b. 1933)

Robert Gillespie (b. 1933)

Brian Patton (b. 1933)

Arthur White (b. 1933)

Barbara Archer (b. 1933)

Sally Bazley (b. 1933)

Madhur Jaffrey (b. 1933)

Jeanette Sterke (b. 1933)

Ann Rogers (b. 1933)

Barbara Knox (b. 1933)

John Boorman (b. 1933)

Derek Martin (b. 1933)

Michael Aspel (b. 1933)

Bill Edwards (b. 1933)

Judi Dench (b. 1934)

Eileen Atkins (b. 1934)

Tom Baker (b. 1934)

Alan Bennett (b. 1934)

Jean Marsh (b. 1934)

Annette Crosbie (b. 1934)

Wendy Craig (b. 1934)

Richard Chamberlain (b. 1934)

Millicent Martin (b. 1934)

John Standing (b. 1934)

Vernon Dobtcheff (b. 1934)

Nanette Newman (b. 1934)

David Burke (b. 1934)

Christopher Benjamin (b. 1934)

Mary Peach (b. 1934)

Geraldine Newman (b. 1934)

Renny Lister (b. 1934)

Priscilla Morgan (b. 1934)

Audrey Dalton (b. 1934)

Leila Hoffman (b. 1934)

Simone Lovell (b. 1934)

Magda Miller (b. 1934)

Robert Aldous (b. 1934)

Ram John Holder (b. 1934)

Jamila Massey (b. 1934)

Margaretta D’Arcy (b. 1934)

Leslie Saeward (b. 1934)

Maurice Podbrey (b. 1934)

Steve Emerson (b. 1934)

Peter Bland (b. 1934)

Michael Darlow (b. 1934)

Barbara Archer (b. 1934)

Joy Webster (b. 1934)

Jacqueline Ellis (b. 1934)

Jacqueline Jones (b. 1934)

Julie Andrews (b. 1935)

Julian Glover (b. 1935)

Jim Dale (b. 1935)

Anne Reid (b. 1935)

James Bolam (b. 1935)

Christina Pickles (b. 1935) 

Judy Parfitt (b. 1935)

Wanda Ventham (b. 1935)

Amanda Barrie (b. 1935)

Derren Nesbitt (b. 1935)

Nadim Swalha (b. 1935)

Gary Raymond (b. 1935)

Janet Henfrey (b. 1935)

Melvyn Hayes (b. 1935)

Susan Engel (b. 1935)

Amanda Walker (b. 1935)

Delena Kidd (b. 1935)

Derek Partridge (b. 1935)

Allister Bain (b. 1935)

Derry Power (b. 1935)

Phyllis MacMahon (b. 1935)

Rowena Cooper (b. 1935)

Derek Partridge (b. 1935)

Jill Dixon (b. 1935)

Des Keough (b. 1935)

Barbara Angell (b. 1935)

Lucille Soong (b. 1935)

Anita West (b. 1935)

June Watson (b. 1935)

David Daker (b. 1935)

Shirley Cain (b. 1935)

Bobby Pattinson (b. 1935)

George Roubicek (b. 1935)

Brian Blessed (b. 1936)

Richard Wilson (b. 1936)

Tommy Steele (b. 1936)

Edward Petherbridge (b. 1936) 

Ursula Andress (b. 1936)

John Leyton (b. 1936)

Jess Conrad (b. 1936)

Elizabeth Shepherd (b. 1936)

Sandra Voe (b. 1936)

Doug Sheldon (b. 1936)

John Golightly (b. 1936)

Peter Ellis (b. 1936)

Andria Lawrence (b. 1936)

Jon Laurimore (b. 1936)

Tony Scoggo (b. 1936)

Barry MacGregor (b. 1936)

Frank Barrie (b. 1936)

Kenneth Farrington (b. 1936)

Eileen McCallum (b. 1936)

Frederick Pyne (b. 1936)

Philip Lowrie (b. 1936)

Marian Diamond (b. 1936)

Anthony Higginson (b. 1936)

Elsie Kelly (b. 1936)

Ann Taylor (b. 1936)

Heidi Erich (b. 1936)

Keith Faulkner (b. 1936)

Ruth Meyers (b. 1936)

Julia Blake (b. 1936)

[movies-to-add-to-your-tbw]

Title: Princess of Thieves

Rating: PG

Director: Peter Hewitt

Cast: Keira Knightley, Stephen Moyer, Malcolm McDowell, Stuart Wilson, Jonathan Hyde, Roger Ashton-Griffiths, David Barrass, Hannah Cresswell, Crispin Letts, Del Synnott, Brendan Gregory, Gaye Brown, Luke de Lacey, Peter MacQueen, Paul Ready, Peter Cellier

Release year: 2001

Genres: adventure, action

Blurb: Sherwood Forest has a courageous new hero - Gwyn, the daughter of Robin Hood. Possessing the cunning skills of her legendary father and the beauty and intelligence of her mother Maid Marian, Gwyn is anxious to follow in her father's footsteps. King Richard nears death, and Robin Hood and his Merry Men are summoned to help bring Richard's son Philip to his rightful place on the throne before the evil Prince John can assume power. Robin Hood's life and that of the future King of England soon lies in Gwyn's hands when Robin is captured and sentenced to death.

[squareallworthy]

The most famous thing about Bulgaria is, of course, their female folk music singing.

Okay, some history: in 1975, after fifteen years of work, Swiss ethnomusicologist Marcel Cellier released a compilation album of Bulgarian women's folk music, titled Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares. Almost no one noticed, except for, you know, extreme music nerds. Several years later, British music producer Ivo Watts-Russell got a cassette copy from his friend Peter Murphy (lead singer of the band Bauhaus) and became fascinated by it. He contacted Cellier and arranged to re-release the album on his own record label in 1986. And then it was released in the US in 1987. And then this obscure folk music recording from Eastern Europe somehow became an international smash hit.

There were three followup albums featuring a number of different choirs. Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares, Volume 2 won a Grammy in 1990. The Bulgarian State Television Female Vocal Choir toured the world (under the name Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares) and appeared on the Tonight Show. I can't adequately describe how suddenly big this was. It wasn't quite mainstream -- no Top 40 radio play -- but everybody who was cool knew about it and suddenly had opinions about Bulgarian folk singing.

And then, as all crazes do, it faded. All the hipsters moved on to the next big thing. But Bulgarian women did not stop singing! And you can still hear them! Here, enjoy some more.

Please reblog for a bigger sample size!

If you have any fun fact about Bulgaria, please tell us and I'll reblog it!

[kwebtv]

Oscar - BBC Two - March 26 - 28, 1985

Drama / Biography (3 Episodes)

Running Time: 60 minutes

Stars:

Michael Gambon as Oscar Wilde 

Robin Lermitte as Lord Alfred Douglas, 

Tim Hardy as Alfred Taylor

Emily Richard as Constance Wilde 

Norman Rodway as the Marquis of Queensberry

John Hudson as Robert Ross

Bryan Murray as George Bernard Shaw

Neil Cunningham as Humphreys

David Collings as Doctor

Donald Sumpter as Clibborn

Karl Howman as Fred Atkins

Nick Reding as Charlie Parker

Ian Holt as Wood

Russell Keith Grant as Brooklield

Peter Cellier as Beerbohm Tree

Anne Lambton as Mrs. Tree

John Repsch as George Alexander

James Bree as the Prince of Wales

Helen Shingler as Lady Lonsdale

Catherine Strauss as Lily Langrey

Robert Burbage as Max Beerbohm

Michael Pennington as Narrator

[reginadeinisseni]

E la Nave Va (And the Ship Sails On) 1983- Federico Fellini

TONINO GUERRA FEDERICO FELLINI

1914 . PIROSCAFO GLORIA N. MOLO 10 PORTO DI NAPOLI

ANDREA ZANZOTTO FRANCO CRISTALDI

Fotografia Giuseppe Rotunno Montaggio Ruggero Mastroianni Effetti speciali Adriano Pischiutta, Valeriano Trubbiani Musiche Gianfranco Plenizio Scenografia Dante Ferretti, collaboratore Valeriano Trubbiani[2] Costumi Maurizio Millenotti

Freddie Jones: Orlando Barbara Jefford: Ildebranda Cuffari Victor Poletti: Aureliano Fuciletto Peter Cellier: Sir Reginald Dongby Elisa Mainardi: Teresa Valegnani Norma West: Lady Violet Dongby Paolo Paoloni: Maestro Albertini Sara Jane Varley: Dorotea Fiorenzo Serra: Granduca di Harzock Pina Bausch: Principessa Lherimia Pasquale Zito: Conte di Bassano Antonio Vezza: Comandante della nave Roberto De Leonardis Luigi Uzzo: Ufficiale di bordo Philip Locke: Primo ministro conte von Huppenback Colin Higgins: Capo della polizia Janet Suzman: Edmea Tetua Vittorio Zarfati: 2º maestro Ruberti[1] Fred Williams: Sabatino Lepori Ugo Fangareggi: barista Doppiatori italiani Ferruccio Amendola: Orlando Rita Savagnone: Ildebranda Cuffari (dialoghi) Mara Zampieri: Ildebranda Cuffari (canto) Alessandro Haber: Aureliano Fuciletto Oreste Lionello: Sir Reginald Dongby/Capo della polizia Giancarlo Sbragia: Maestro Albertini Massimo Giuliani: Conte di Bassano Sergio Rossi: Comandante della nave Roberto De Leonardis Pino Colizzi: Sabatino Lepori E la nave va è un film del 1983 diretto da Federico Fellini. 1914: il piroscafo "Gloria N." salpa dal molo n. 10 di un non meglio definito porto di Napoli con a bordo le ceneri della "divina" cantante lirica Edmea Tetua. Meta della crociera: l'isoletta di Erimo nel Mar Egeo, nelle cui acque - per ottemperare alle ultime volontà del soprano - le ceneri dovranno essere sparse.

A bordo della nave, celebrità varie, nobili e amici della defunta artista, descritti con un'ironia comprensiva e impietosa al tempo stesso dal giornalista Orlando, a bordo per redigere una cronaca dell'evento. A bordo è presente persino un rinoceronte, ammalato di tristezza d'amore, che saltuariamente viene visitato dai passeggeri.

Il corso della Storia irrompe però con forza: a Sarajevo il granduca Ferdinando è ucciso e scoppia la prima guerra mondiale; contemporaneamente, il comandante della nave si trova costretto a dover soccorrere dei naufraghi serbi.

In vista della meta, il piroscafo italiano incrocia una corazzata austriaca e viene colpito ed affondato.

Nell'ultima scena il giornalista Orlando informa il pubblico del fatto che i passeggeri non sono tutti morti[3]:

Un idrovolante ha recuperato i superstiti della scialuppa Aurora [...] La scialuppa Stella del nord è miracolosamente arrivata ad Ancona [...] Per quanto mi riguarda io ho una grande notizia da darvi: Lo sapevate che il rinoceronte dà un ottimo latte?

Nel dir questo il giornalista si scherma le labbra con la mano per non farsi sentire dal rinoceronte, il secondo passeggero della barca, che finalmente sereno, mangia un ciuffo d'erba.

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[cleowho]

“Are you responsible for this box, sir?”

Time-Flight - season19 - 1982

[bookcub]

context:

I read little thieves by margaret owen and adored it so I picked up the goose girl by shannon hale for a direct comparison, as I had also heard lots of praises for it, and it was lovely to read.

then in my fairy tale class, i was assigned to read thorn by intisar khanani, which had another interesting perspective. my professor then recommended a short story as optional reading, the tale of the handkerchief by emma donnghue, which was also great to read.

so now I am looking at:

identity by camille peters

the noble servant by melanie dickerson

goose chase by patrice kindl

the secret person by melanie cellier

dearest by alethea kontis

enspelled by aya ling

feathers of the snow by alice ivinya

and if you know any others, let me know and ill add them to my list! im looking for short stories and other forms of media besides novels as well!!

if ive read 4 retellings of the goose girl so far this year, how many more can i read before next year???

[ozu-teapot]

Man About the House | John Robins | 1974

[poppiesandappletrees]

Shit-eating grin contest between Sir Frank and Sir Humphrey.

[myfavoritepeterotoole]

Hamlet National Theatre, 1963 directed by Laurence Olivier

Peter O'Toole as Hamlet

Michael Redgrave as Claudius

Peter Cellier as Rosencrantz

Raymond Clarke as Guildenstern

- Photo by Angus Mcbean -

[mariocki]

Play for Today: Leeds - United! (BBC, 1974)

"Why don't you bum off up to Bentham's, there's thousands of 'em up there. We're only a dozen! What difference do we make?"

"Solidarity, that's the difference!"

"Solidarity me arse. What's the bloody union ever done for us, eh? Have a scan of this stinkin' hole in here, what's your bleeding solidarity done about that?"

"Well now's your bleedin' chance, innit!"

[phantomthread]

“In my opinion, Sir Harry deserves a tenant as vulgar as himself. Acting the little god down here with his gentility and his patronage and his sham aesthetics, and everyone is taken in. “

A Room with a View (1985) dir. James Ivory

[alexlacquemanne]

Avril MMXXI

Films

Une idée de génie (Ingenious) (2009) de Jeff Balsmeyer avec Dallas Roberts, Jeremy Renner, Ayelet Zurer, Marguerite Moreau et Amanda Anka

Ghost in the Shell (2017) de Rupert Sanders avec Scarlett Johansson, Takeshi Kitano, Michael Pitt, Pilou Asbæk et Juliette Binoche

Comment voler un million de dollars (How to Steal a Million) (1966) de William Wyler avec Audrey Hepburn, Peter O'Toole, Hugh Griffith et Eli Wallach

Niagara (1953) de Henry Hathaway avec Marilyn Monroe, Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters, Casey Adams et Denis O'Dea

Faut pas prendre les enfants du bon Dieu pour des canards sauvages (1968) de Michel Audiard avec Françoise Rosay, Bernard Blier, Marlène Jobert et André Pousse

Lost in Translation (2003) de Sofia Coppola avec Scarlett Johansson, Bill Murray, Giovanni Ribisi et Anna Faris

Mission impossible 2 (Mission: Impossible 2) (2000) de John Woo avec Tom Cruise, Dougray Scott, Thandie Newton et Ving Rhames

Dies iræ (2003) d’Alexandre Astier avec Tony Saba, Thomas Cousseau, Lionnel Astier, Nicolas Gabion, Franck Pitiot, Jean-Christophe Hembert, Alexandre Astier et Jean-Robert Lombard

Poulet au vinaigre (1985) de Claude Chabrol avec Jean Poiret, Stéphane Audran, Lucas Belvaux, Michel Bouquet, Caroline Cellier, Jean Topart et Pauline Lafont

Tony Rome est dangereux (Tony Rome) (1967) de Gordon Douglas avec Frank Sinatra, Jill St John, Richard Conte, Gena Rowlands et Simon Oakland

Le Retour de la Panthère Rose (The Return of the Pink Panther) (1975) de Blake Edwards avec Peter Sellers, Christopher Plummer, Catherine Schell et Herbert Lom

Spectacles

Une femme presque fidèle (1977) de Jacques Bernard avec Jacques Mauclair, Dominique Paturel, Jacqueline Gauthier, Monique Tarbès et Sacha Briquet

Nono (1984) de Sacha Guitry avec Michel Roux, Bernard Alane, Robert Manuel et Katia Tchenko

Séries

Friends Saison 5, 6

Celui qui rate son week-end - Celui qui a du mal à se taire - Celui qui emménage - Celui qui avait des souvenirs difficiles à avaler - Celui qui s'était fait piquer son sandwich - Celui qui avait une sœur un peu spéciale - Celui qui prenait de bonnes résolutions - Celui qui riait différemment - Celui qui avait un sac - Celui qui découvre tout - Celui qui prenait des coups - Celui qui enviait ses amis - Celui qui ne savait pas se repérer - Celui qui se sacrifiait - Celui qui ne savait pas flirter - Celui qui sauvait des vies - Celui qui jouait à la balle - Celui qui devait casser la baraque - Celui qui était à Las Vegas : 1re partie - Celui qui était à Las Vegas : 2e partie - Ceux qui revenaient de Las Vegas - Celui qui console Rachel - Celui qui était de mauvaise foi - Celui qui perdait sa belle assurance - Celui qui avait une belle bagnole - Ceux qui passaient leur dernière nuit - Celui qui avait une jolie colocataire - Celui qui avait les dents blanches - Celui qui s'était drogué - Celui qui souhaitait la bonne année - Celui qui avait le derrière entre deux chaises - Celui qui inventait des histoires - Celui qui sortait avec la sœur

Méli Mélo Saison 1, 2, 3

Au prix que ça coûte ! - Sors de ton lit ! - Vive l'herbe libre - Allais, allez ! - Des tout petits cachets ! - Bzz ! - Tartare de sédiments ! - Papy lingette ! - Eau propre eau sale ! - Le goût des eaux - Le changement c'est maintenant ! - Les sceptiques de la fosse ! - Culture et Captages - L'étroite moustiquaire - Un léger penchant ! - De source sûre !

Meurtres au paradis Saison 10

Meurtre dans la matinale - Trésors enfouis - Jackpot - Enquête sous perfusion

Nestor Burma Saison 3

Les Eaux troubles de Javel - Nestor Burma court la poupée - Brouillard au pont de Tolbiac

Kaamelott Livre IV, I

La Carte - Le Repas de famille - Le Répurgateur - Le Labyrinthe - Beaucoup de bruit pour rien - Le Oud II - Le discours - Le Duel - L'Invasion viking - La Bataille rangée - La Romance de Perceval - Unagi IV - La Permission - Anges et Démons - Les Tartes aux fraises - Le Chaudron rutilant - La Visite d’Ygerne - Les Clandestins - La Kleptomane - Le Pain - La Mort le Roy Artu - Le Problème du chou - Un roi à la taverne - Les Fesses de Guenièvre

Les Nouvelles Aventures de Lucky Luke

Liki Liki - Lucky Luke en Alaska

Top Gear Saison 14, 21, 19, 22, 13

Road Trip en Roumanie - Road Trip à Tchernobyl - Spécial Afrique : Première partie - Les pires voitures de l’histoire - Les imbéciles changent d'avis ! - Passion vintage

Columbo Saison 7, 3

Le mystère de la chambre forte - Au-delà de la folie

Livres

Lucky Luke #52 : Fingers de Morris et Hartog Van Banda

Plan de bataille pour OSS 117 de Jean Bruce

Lucky Luke #33 : Le Pied-Tendre de Morris et René Goscinny

Superman Poche N°48

On est foutu, on pense trop ! de Serge Marquis

Wanted Lucky Luke de Matthieu Bonhomme

[thejsbeauty]

“Picnic At Hanging Rock” (1975), dir. Peter Weir

Everything begins and ends at exactly the right time and place.

[diceriadelluntore]

Storia di Musica #121 - Les Mystère Des Voix Bulgares, Les Mystère Des Voix Bulgares, 1986

La storia musicale di oggi nasce da appunti di un esame di etnomusicologia. Questa disciplina, molto giovane dal punto di vista degli studi etnologici comparati, attraverso lo studio della tradizione musicale orale, vuole affiancare la disciplina dei testi accademica ai canti popolari e tradizionali. Una delle figure più affascinanti di questa disciplina fu quella di Marcel Cellier. Svizzero, etnomusicologo, antropologo ma anche grande appassionato di musica  per anni fu conduttore del programma radiofonico, della emittente Radio Suisse Normande, From The Black Sea To The Baltic. In esso Cellier faceva conoscere e scoprire le registrazioni, per la maggior parte da lui stesso registrate e prodotte, dei canti popolari e della tradizione folkoristica europea, soprattutto dei Balcani e dell’Est Europa. Due grandi scoperte della musica popolare folk si devono a Cellier: il flautista e compositore Gheorghe Zamfir, rumeno, virtuoso del flauto di pan (che si sente anche nella emozionante colonna sonora di C’era una volta in America di Sergio Leone) e il gruppo di canto a cappella della Tv di Stato Bulgara. Nel 1952 il Governo Bulgaro fondò due cori di voci femminili, il Bălgarskoto Nacionalno Radio (quello della radio di Stato) e Bălgarska Nacionalna Televizija (quella della Tv di Stato). I direttori fondatori furono Filip Kutev e la moglie Maria. Lo scopo principale era ovviamente di propaganda statale, e per questo il direttore e sua moglie viaggiarono in tutti i villaggi della Bulgaria a scegliere giovani dotate nel canto e a ritrovare le canzoni degli anziani, sconosciute e che si tramandavano solo oralmente. In verità a metà anni ‘50, anche grazie agli studi di Alan Lomax (immenso studioso di etnomusicologia, amico e produttore di Woody Guthrie e Leadbelly, iniziatore dell’immensa e inestimabile collezione di registrazioni folk della Columbia World Library of Folk and Primitive Music dell’Univerità Columbia di New York), fu pubblicato un disco, Music Of Bulgaria (1955) che conteneva già alcuni brani del coro. Cellier invece, anche grazie allo spirito e alla classe della nuova direttrice, Dora Hristova, nel 1975, per la sua etichetta, registra in studio e pubblica una selezione dei brani del coro con il nome, bellissimo, di Les Mystère Des Voix Bulgares. Già all’epoca il disco ebbe un piccolo culto, ma il successo mondiale del coro avviene qualche anno più tardi. Una musicassetta registrata amatorialmente del disco prodotto da Cellier fu regalata da Peter Murphy, ex cantante dei Bauhaus, al produttore discografico Ivo Watts-Russell, fondatore della storica etichetta inglese 4AD, casa discografica del post punk, della new wave e della nuova musica gotica. Watts-Russell si innamora di quel suono magnifico e contatta Cellier per una riedizione del disco del 1975, sempre a titolo Les Mystère Des Voix Bulgares (che è l’edizione che ho io, 1986): questa volta però la copertina, stupenda, è opera dello studio grafico 23Envelope che aveva fortemente contribuito all’immagine dell’etichetta, facendo diventare il disco un successo imprevisto. La musica del coro, quasi totalmente a cappella, è un miscuglio magico e incredibile di perfezione vocale: i brani hanno temi pastorali, canti nuziali, addirittura che pescano nelle millenarie tradizioni della Tracia o della catena dei Monti Rodopi (a sud della Bulgaria). Ma l’emozione è totale nel sentire le arditissime armonizzazioni, le diafonie, gli effetti clamorosi dei canti degli intervalli di un quarto di tono (cosa che pochissimi sono capaci di fare). La magia è un misto di atmosfere oscure, gioiose, e nel disco, che conta 13 brani, ci sono anche prove con coro e solista e una canzone, Pritouritze Planinata (Canto della Tracia) con un’Orchestra. Il successo è strepitoso, proprio negli anni della crescita esponenziale dell’interesse sulla musica etnica. Nel 1988 la 4AD pubblicò un Volume II, magnifico, e iniziarono i concerti in tutto il mondo. Nel 1990 il gruppo vinse un Grammy come Best Traditional Folk Recording. Nel 1992 il coro si divise in due: una parte (Bulgarian State Television Female Vocal Choir) lavora per la TV; mentre l'altra, chiamata "Angelite-The Bulgarian Voices" lavora per la radio. Nello stesso anno, nell’album di Elio E Le Storie Tese, nella canzone Pippero (da Italyan, Rum Casusu Çikti ispirata tra l’altro ad un canto bulgaro) il coro diretto da Dora Hristova canta in un “finto italiano” Dyulmano, Dyulbero, una delle canzoni storiche del coro vocale. Fu la prima di una serie di partecipazioni internazionali, tra cui due particolari: il tema principale della serie Xena La Principessa Guerriera deriva da una composizione del coro e nella struggente Wake Up Dead Man degli U2, brano finale di Pop (1997), c’è un campionamento di un loro brano come tappeto musicale di fondo. Ancora oggi sono attive e spesso sono in Italia per Festival e concerti: qualora sia possibile, vi consiglio di andarci, a sentire queste voci fuori dal tempo di artiste che si vestono sempre dei colori tradizionali delle campagne bulgare, piene di colori, drappi e dai meravigliosi cappelli di lino bianco.